Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.